Tag Archives: 2025

Henry Badowski’s “Life Is A Grand” Has Finally Reached Monastic Ears After 44 Year Wait

Posted on May 21, 2025 by postpunkmonk

This is just ludicrous. I can recall seeing the viddy for “My Face” in some pre-MTV situation and thinking to myself, “this sounds good, I should get that album!” The album in question was called “Life Is A Grand” by … Continue reading →

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Les Longs Adieux Cover a Lou Reed Classic With “Perfect Day”

Posted on May 20, 2025 by postpunkmonk

We just got notice last Saturday that the Roman Post-Punk-slash-Darkwave band Les Longs Adieux had covered Lou Reed’s classic bittersweet ballad, “Perfect Day” and there was a video for it. I wondered if this was an upcoming Bandcamp release but … Continue reading →

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Chopper Franklin Back With A New Dark Dub Single “The Hexed”

Posted on May 19, 2025 by postpunkmonk

Chopper Franklin: The Hexed Dub – US – DL [2025] We were in the middle of a thread last week when we got wind of the new single from one man musical gene splicer Chopper Franklin, so we’re directing our … Continue reading →

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Simple Minds Exit Their Live Trilogy On A High Note With “Live In the City of Diamonds” [part 3]

Posted on May 16, 2025 by postpunkmonk

[…continued from last post] Following the never ending rendition of “Belfast Child,” the set list began its sprint towards the inevitable. Their three biggest selling singles would inevitably manifest, but they were shot through with some more thrills from the … Continue reading →

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Simple Minds Exit Their Live Trilogy On A High Note With “Live In the City of Diamonds” [part 2]

Posted on May 15, 2025 by postpunkmonk

[…continued from last post] After the most perfect opening salvo to a Simple Minds live album ever, Where can anyone go but down? If Kerr’s “let me see your hands” in the song least likely to host such shenanigans was … Continue reading →

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Simple Minds Exit Their Live Trilogy On A High Note With “Live In the City of Diamonds” [part 1]

Posted on May 14, 2025 by postpunkmonk

Simple Minds: Live In The City Of Diamonds – Worldwide – 2xCD [2025] CD1 CD2 We put this on the want list when it was announced earlier this year and we made sure to pre-order so that it was posted … Continue reading →

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John Foxx + The Maths Cleaning Up Loose Vinyl Ends With “Evidence” LP Coming Soon

Posted on May 8, 2025 by postpunkmonk

John Foxx + The Maths are said to be recording their new opus concurrently, but until that is announced, the one album of theirs not on wax is stepping into the breach to rectify that omission. Their 2012 album “Evidence” … Continue reading →

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